Initia: [a]2r; imprint from colophon

Text set 23 lines of Gothic, with two line Lombard initials

Frontispiece [a]1v: TIBI DABO CLAVES RE.CELOR, with caption: Quodcunq₅ ligaueris super terram ligatum ..

Fol. [a]3r: half page armorial woodcut, 8-line foliated initial: Roma civitas sancta caput mundi condita fuit ..., facing full leaf framed woodcut of Rhea Silva, Romulus and Remus nursed by the wolf, below. Initials of artist[s?] H.I. I.S. (or I.H.I.S. reading left to right) on scroll in frame. In all, 10 full page woodcuts (1 repeat), in variously decorated initialed frames, and the half page armorial

Signatures: [a]⁸b-g⁸

Many editions of this text are issued with the Mirabilia Romae, a brief history of Rome and its features and therefore the Indulgentiae are also often called by that title. The woodcuts and typeface in this edition are almost identical with those used by Stephan Planck in his publications which display borders with the same initials of which Nagler reports the I.S. stands for Jacobus von Strassburg. Sander posits that the cuts were made for Besicken who used them in later publications as well

Reichling

Sander

Schudt

IGI

Nagler, G.K. Monogrammisten

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